The Canh line ( vi, chi Canh;

chữ Hán Chữ Hán (𡨸漢, literally "Chinese characters", ), Chữ Nho (𡨸儒, literally "Confucian characters", ) or Hán tự (漢字, ), is the Vietnamese term for Chinese characters, used to write Văn ngôn (which is a form of Classical Chinese ...

: 支庚; ''chi'' can also be translated to as ''branch'') was the fifteenth dynasty of

Hùng king Hùng king (c. 2524 BC – ?; Chữ Hán: 雄王; vi, Hùng Vương (雄王) or ''vua Hùng'' (𤤰雄); ''Vương'' means "king" and ''vua'' means "monarch; could mean emperor or king") is the title given to the ancient Vietnamese rulers of the ...

s of the Hồng Bàng period of Văn Lang (now

Viet Nam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it ...

). Starting 754 B.C., the line refers to the rule of Cảnh Chiêu Lang and his successors. It is best known as the period when the

Lạc Việt The Lạc Việt or Luoyue ( or ; pinyin: ''Luòyuè'' ← Middle Chinese: *''lɑk̚-ɦʉɐt̚'' ← Old Chinese *''râk-wat'') was a group of multilinguistic, specifically Kra-Dai and Austroasiatic, tribal peoples that inhabited ancient northe ...

made their appearance in Văn Lang and whose influence was an important one on Vietnamese history.

History

Cảnh Chiêu Lang took the

regnal name A regnal name, or regnant name or reign name, is the name used by monarchs and popes during their reigns and, subsequently, historically. Since ancient times, some monarchs have chosen to use a different name from their original name when they ac ...

of Hùng Triệu Vương (雄朝王) upon becoming Hùng king.Biệt Lam Trần Huy Bá. (article title unknown). ''Nguồn Sáng'' magazine ''23'' - 1998. The series of all Hùng kings following Cảnh Chiêu Lang took that same regnal name of Hùng Triệu Vương to rule over Văn Lang until approximately 661 B.C. During this period, at a regional level, Văn Lang was divided into as many as 15 administrative regions called bộs each still governed by a Lạc tướng.The Hung Kings and the Kingdom of Van Lang
. Retrieved 2014-01-17. Hùng Vương ( en, Hùng King) became a form of address for a person who was king. The Hùng kings of this line restored a single strong kingship as part of the Đông Sơn period, and initiating another glorious chapter in Vietnamese history, as the Vietnamese people increasingly identified with the Đông Sơn culture. The 7th century BC witnessed the process of migration of

refugees who fled the

Spring and Autumn period The Spring and Autumn period was a period in Chinese history from approximately 770 to 476 BC (or according to some authorities until 403 BC) which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period. The period's name derives fr ...

to Văn Lang.Hauptly, 1985, 4 The Lạc Việt were a people from

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. The migrant people finally settled in the

Red River Delta The Red River Delta or Hong River Delta ( vi, Châu thổ sông Hồng) is the flat low-lying plain formed by the Red River and its distributaries merging with the Thái Bình River in northern Vietnam. ''Hồng'' (紅) is a Sino-Vietnamese wor ...

. Slowly, the Lạc Việt settlers would grasp power over Văn Lang.Đào Duy Anh, p. 21

References

Bibliography

*Đào Duy Anh. ''Đất nước Việt Nam qua các đời''. NXB VHTT, 2005. *Hauptly, Denis J. (1985), ''In Vietnam'', New York. *Nguyễn Khắc Thuần (2008). ''Thế thứ các triều vua Việt Nam''. Giáo Dục Publisher. *Sloper, David W (1995). Higher Education in Vietnam: Change and Response. Institute of Southeast Asian, 1995 - 20c. Hồng Bàng dynasty 7th-century BC disestablishments 8th-century BC establishments {{Vietnam-stub